Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1939: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, on the Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1939U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - 849 pages |
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... active service and to provide for the necessary reserves and aviation cadets . Our estimates do not provide full war complements for all vessels in com- mission , but those that are not provided with full complements can- not be ...
... active service and to provide for the necessary reserves and aviation cadets . Our estimates do not provide full war complements for all vessels in com- mission , but those that are not provided with full complements can- not be ...
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... active resistance to visit or search , a warship , whether surface vessel or submarine , may not sink or render incapable of navigation a merchant vessel without first having placed passengers , crew , and ship's papers in a place of ...
... active resistance to visit or search , a warship , whether surface vessel or submarine , may not sink or render incapable of navigation a merchant vessel without first having placed passengers , crew , and ship's papers in a place of ...
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... active service ? Admiral ANDREWS . Yes , sir ; that is correct . Mr. UMSTEAD . That does give you , however , a substantial number of splendidly equipped young men for the best years , so far as naval aviation is concerned . Admiral ...
... active service ? Admiral ANDREWS . Yes , sir ; that is correct . Mr. UMSTEAD . That does give you , however , a substantial number of splendidly equipped young men for the best years , so far as naval aviation is concerned . Admiral ...
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... active . service and turned out in any appreciable numbers in less than 4 months . Our main reliance for this period of transition must be on the Naval Reserve trained in time of peace . The Naval Reserve , an integral part of the Navy ...
... active . service and turned out in any appreciable numbers in less than 4 months . Our main reliance for this period of transition must be on the Naval Reserve trained in time of peace . The Naval Reserve , an integral part of the Navy ...
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... active service and turned out in any appreciable numbers in less than 4 months . Admiral ANDREWS . That is correct . Mr. PLUMLEY . You mean it takes 4 months to find out whether they are qualified for service ? You do not mean it takes ...
... active service and turned out in any appreciable numbers in less than 4 months . Admiral ANDREWS . That is correct . Mr. PLUMLEY . You mean it takes 4 months to find out whether they are qualified for service ? You do not mean it takes ...
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1938 appropriation active additional Admiral ANDREWS Admiral BowEN Admiral CONARD Admiral Cook Admiral Du BOSE Admiral FURLONG Admiral LEAHY Admiral MOREELL Admiral ROSSITER Admiral SELLERS aircraft airplanes allocation allowance ammunition amount armament Armor average aviation cadets base battleships boats Budget building Bureau of Aeronautics Bureau of Engineering Bureau of Navigation Captain WILKINSON Captain YATES chinery Coco Solo Commander commission committee cost cruisers decommissioned destroyers DITTER duty employees Engineering enlisted equipment esti estimate for 1939 expenditures expenses fiscal year 1939 fleet funds guns GYGAX HOLCOMB improvement included increase Lieutenant maintenance material ment midshipmen Naval Academy Naval Reserve Navy Department Navy Yard necessary Newport nonrecurring items officers outfits overhaul Pearl Harbor percent personnel Philadelphia Navy Yard planes plant PLUMLEY present purchase reduced requested for 1939 SCRUGHAM seaplane tender shipbuilding ships statement submarines subsistence tion torpedo Total transportation treaty UMSTEAD units
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Page 324 - ... unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States, shall be acquired for public use.
Page 122 - There is a great deal of work that has to be done on these forests in the way of stand improvement, fire prevention, and improvements of one kind and another.
Page 65 - A vessel shall be deemed to be "over-age" when the following number of years have elapsed since the date of its completion : (a) For a surface vessel exceeding 3,000 tons (3,048 metric tons) but not exceeding 10,000 tons...
Page 65 - Except as provided in Article 20, the tonnage laid down in any category subject to limitation in accordance with Article 16 shall not exceed the amount necessary to reach the maximum allowed tonnage of the category, or to replace vessels that become "overage" before the 31st December, 1936. Nevertheless, replacement tonnage may be laid down for cruisers and submarines that become "overage" in 1937, 1938 and 1939, and for destroyers that become "overage
Page 298 - Navy, such employment would be advantageous to the public interests, and messes temporarily set up on shore for officers attached to seagoing vessels, to aviation units based on seagoing vessels including officers...
Page 324 - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and unless the head of the department or independent establishment concerned shall determine it to be inconsistent with the public interest, or the cost to be unreasonable, only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined...
Page 561 - AND DOCKS. The duties of the Bureau of Yards and Docks comprise all that relates to the design and construction of public works, such as dry docks, marine railways, building ways, harbor works, quay walls, piers, wharves, slips, dredging, landings, floating and stationary cranes, power plants, coaling plants; heating, lighting, telephone, water, sewer, and railroad systems; roads, walks, and grounds; bridges, radio towers, and all buildings, for whatever purpose needed, under the Navy and Marine...
Page 62 - In particular, except in the case of persistent refusal to stop on being duly summoned, or of active resistance to visit or search, a warship, whether surface vessel or submarine, may not sink or render incapable of navigation a merchant vessel without having first placed passengers, crew and ship's papers in a place of safety.
Page 281 - Navy in time of war or during the existence of a national emergency declared by the President...
Page 64 - In time of war, Turkey not being belligerent, warships shall enjoy complete freedom of transit and navigation through the Straits under the same conditions as those laid down in Articles 10 to 18. Vessels of war belonging to belligerent Powers shall not, however, pass through the Straits except in cases arising out of the application of Article 25 of the present Convention, and in cases of assistance rendered to a State victim...